Testers and Testing: A Product Owner’s Perspective

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Agile Testing

5/6/2015 3:00:00 PM

Testers and Testing: A Product

Owner’s Perspective

Presented by:

Scott Barber

PerfTestPlus, Inc.

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Scott Barber

PerfTestPlus, Inc.

Chief performance evangelist,Â Scott Barber is a respected leader in the advancement of

software testing practices, an industry activist, and load testing celebrity of sorts. Scott

authored several booksâ€•Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Beautiful

Testing, How to Reduce the Cost of Testing, and Web Load Testing for Dummiesâ€•and more

than 100 articles and blog posts. Founder/president of PerfTestPlus, Scott co-founded the

WOPR, served as director of the AST and CMG, and is a founding member of ISST. His industry

writing, speaking, and activism focus on improving the effectiveness and business alignment of

software development practices. Learn more about Scott Barber.

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© 2015 PerfTestPlus, Inc. All rights reserved.Product Owner’s Perspective

By:

Scott BarberChief Technologist

PerfTestPlus, Inc.

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Testers and Testing:

A Product Owner’s Perspective


Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.www.perftestplus.com

Principal Test Engineer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud

www.exacttarget.com

(previously) Product Owner, SmartBear Softwarewww.smartbear.com

Co-Author:Author: Contributing Author:

Books: www.perftestplus.com/pubs About me: about.me/scott.barber

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“I about giving them . I only about giving them !

“We were all put on this planet to . If you are spending time on anything else, you are wrong.”

“So what if {product name} against {technology}. That’s no reason not to sell it to them. You need to !”

“We don’t want to be the best, we want to be barely good

enough to meet our revenue goals!”

I was told+

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1. No “extra” Deliverables

I required 2 items:• Access to current build

• Work item/Story status

• Not started

• In Progress (on track/behind/clarify)

• Blocked

• Complete

I had no interest in: • Test Plans

• Bug Reports

• Test Reports

• Equivalent Dev Items


2. Joint Accountability

I made no distinction between team members:• Dev/Test/DBA/CM, etc.

• Sometimes I didn’t even know who was which

All that *might* matter to me was: • Who “owned” the Work Item/Story

• Who it was assigned to

• Did they have what they needed

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3. Weekly “Show & Tell”

The whole technical team plus:• Me

• Sr. Pre-Sales Engineer

• Sr. Product Support Engineer

Whomever Work Item/Story was assigned to: • Showed their desktop

• Provided one of the status’s from previous slide

• “Showed & told”

• Answered questions

Work Item/Story Owner (if not current assignee):• Added additional comments when necessary


4. Sprint Demos

Open to the whole company:• Mandatory attendees

• “Show & Tell” team

• Marketing Lead

• Sales Lead

• Support Lead

Work Item/Story Owner: • Explained rational behind item/story

• “Showed & told”

• Answered questions

Leads/Product Owner:• Added additional comments when necessary

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5. Release Criteria

I chose to release when I could live with the

feedback I was receiving from:• Pre-Sales Engineers

• Support Engineers

• Technical Marketing

• “Secret Advisors”

• Alpha Customers

• Me

I did not use: • Reports

• Metrics

• Dashboards


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Questions?

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Contact Info

about.me/scott.barber

Chief Technologist

PerfTestPlus, Inc.

E-mail:

[email protected]

Blog:

scott-barber.blogspot.com

Web Site:

www.PerfTestPlus.com

Twitter:

@sbarber

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